Shake, Shimmy, & Dance: 7/8

For the first time in our library’s history, we ran our own summer reading program — Make Some Noise! What better opportunity to do a bi-weekly music and movement dance party? This program was advertised for ages 0-7 and their families.

The Plan

BookMonsters Love Colors by Mike Austin
Scribble, scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle: what a great chorus and what a great set of new vocabulary for our youngest kiddos to learn! This book gives more than enough opportunity to move around while being read, but also teaches color recognition. One of my favorite new reads of this past year!

How It Went

I really enjoyed “Skip to My Lou” because the kids decided to play follow the leader and made a line behind me. I was personally exhausted after the first three songs — jumping, skipping, and dancing was a LOT for me to do. And “Jumping With Variations” turned out to be a much longer song in actuality than when I was listening to it in my work space.

(For an example of the Powerpoint and handouts that I made for each Shake, Shimmy please visit the original post.)